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" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

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" Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. "

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "

" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "

" Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. "

" I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. "

Jean-Michel Basquiat

" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. "

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "

" Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. "

" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

Karen Salmansohn

" My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. "

" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

" The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. "

Eugene Delacroix

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. "

Jackson Pollock

" O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. "

Christopher Marlowe

" I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition. "

" They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. "

" The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

Jawaharlal Nehru

" I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure. "

" I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. "

" I like to dress up, but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy. It's really more the art of dressing. "

" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. "

John Wesley Powell

" Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? "

Alfred de Vigny

" The job of art is to chase ugliness away. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels. "

Denise Morrison